Lot no. 39
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Estimate: €150 - €200
[CRÉBILLON, Claude-Prosper de (fils). - The Sopha, a moral tale. First [-second] volume.- At Gaznah, from the printers of the Most Pious, Most Clement & Most August Sultan of India. L'an de l'Hegire M.C.XX [i. e. Paris, Prault, 1742].2 parts bound in one volume in-12 of (3) ff. 298 pp. and (3) ff. 264 pp; marbled havana calf, ribbed spine richly decorated with gilt fillets, fleurons and motifs, red morocco title-piece, gilt roulette on the edges (contemporary binding).
Second edition (?) after a hypothetical first edition cited by Tchemerzine without ever having seen it.
A pleasant copy in contemporary binding, with a small but not serious marginal brown spot affecting the first few leaves; handwritten ex-libris F. Dhoudetot on the title.
Frédéric-Christophe, comte d'Houdetot, (1778-1859), politician, prefect and peer of France.
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